Post #1032153
2026-04-09 00:18 UTC
Replies (24)
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@CommonSparrow@mindly.social 2026-04-09 22:19
@dorian@retro.social I am older with poor eyesight, so this also drove me crazy. A friend who knows more about computer stuff showed me how to make the scrollbar thicker by sending me this link to the "How To" trick. I set my width to 30, and it's perfect, very visible and easy to grab with the cursor. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=393047
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@greyor@goblin.technology 2026-04-09 00:21
@dorian@retro.social it is really user-hostile IMHO
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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2026-04-09 03:30
@dorian@retro.social @arrjay@tacobelllabs.net Seriously. (I say replying to a chat that is half a day from current)
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@xan@xantronix.social 2026-04-09 03:34
@dorian@retro.social my empire for a single modern Gtk theme that doesn't have the same pill-shaped scrollbar like this is enough for me to make a whole ass GUI toolkit
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@pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz 2026-04-09 03:53
@dorian@retro.social bring back visible UI!
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@retrosponge@kind.social 2026-04-09 04:18
@dorian@retro.social That is absolutely one of the worst design shifts in software ever.
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@clive@saturation.social 2026-04-09 05:10
@dorian@retro.social Agreed — I’d love for them to be more than, like, *two pixels wide*
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-09 05:28
@dorian@retro.social Mac System 6 had em right.
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@alexanderdyas@mindly.social 2026-04-09 06:02
@dorian@retro.social And then they disappear just before you can grab them
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@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-04-09 06:08
@dorian@retro.social I based my choice of OS and desktop environment entirely around this. Plus window borders that are wide enough to grab. Not kidding. LXQt, if anyone is interested. Out of the box it's just as bad as KDE but it comes with a selection of retro themes that restore the UI glory of yore in a way that I couldn't quite get right in KDE.
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-09 06:52
@dorian@retro.social yes! also, window borders. try grabbing one using a touchpad…
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@thias@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 07:00
@dorian@retro.social scroll-bars are like copy/paste, a faint memory of their past glory. https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41198
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-04-09 07:20
@dorian@retro.social I disagree about the width, but wish scrollbars were more obvious than ghostly wisps.
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@GinevraCat@toot.community 2026-04-09 08:36
@dorian@retro.social @HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk So f'ing much.
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@abstractcode@eigenmagic.net 2026-04-09 10:28
@dorian@retro.social https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/115865317310751769
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@patterfloof@meow.social 2026-04-09 13:24
@chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk @dorian@retro.social what's that in the corner? that's me with a spy glass looking for the scrollbar (also bring back pagination on search results)
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@leonerd@meow.social 2026-04-09 12:54
@dorian@retro.social I remain of the opinion that Win95/98 had the pinnacle of UI visual design. It's all been downhill since then.
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@vrtxd@piipitin.fi 2026-04-09 12:58
@dorian@retro.social I also find it interesting how some websites are nowadays displaying a horizontal reading progress bar when you're scrolling through their vertical content. If only there was a more intuitive way to display where you currently are on the page 🤔
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@eliskunk@queer.group 2026-04-09 13:45
@dorian@retro.social word 😭
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@dlbonhaus@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 14:42
@dorian@retro.social I also wish they would appear when I hover over them and not just when I gesture on the trackpad. Looking at you, MacOS.
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@sjslocombe@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-09 15:59
@dorian@retro.social Me, too.
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@kerravonsen@mastodon.au 2026-04-09 18:45
@dorian@retro.social Making user interface controls which vanish until you hover over the invisible magic spot is EVIL, whether it be scrollbars, buttons, docks, status bars... or links in websites. EVIL.
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@JeremyMallin@autistics.life 2026-04-09 22:24
@dorian@retro.social 💯
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@Be_Kinky@muenchen.social 2026-04-10 20:13
@dorian@retro.social A complaint I chime in. With increasing age and some eye issues, it is terrible when the scroll bar hides , and only get a reasonable size, when you manage to locate the mouse precisely. And in most programs you can’t find an option to disable this super narrow scroll bar.